Towards equivalence checking between TLM and RTL models

Proceedings - Fifth ACM and IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Co-Design, MEMOCODE'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 113-122

  Bombieri, Nicola ^a   Fummi, Franco ^a   Pravadelli, Graziano ^a   Marques Silva, Joao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

DESIGN FLOWS; EQUIVALENCE CHECKING; TRANSACTION LEVEL MODELING (TLM);

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548837204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMCOD.2007.371236     Document Type: Conference Paper

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